Police detective had sex with domestic abuse victims, sent them sex texts, jailed for four years

Also
recommend no further action be taken against the ex-parter of a woman
who would not send him pictures after he said he wanted to f*’ her

He also had sex with another victim after asking her to dress up for him

Pleaded guilty to seven offences and has now been jailed for four years

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A
'predatory' police officer who sent sex texts to vulnerable domestic
abuse victims and had sex with two of them has been branded 'rotten to
the core' as he was jailed for four years.

A
court heard Detective Constable Michael McMillan, 32, abused
his position in the Merseyside's Family Crime Investigation Unit by
targeting the women for his 'sexual purposes'.

The
32-year-old married father of two pleaded guilty to seven offences
of misconduct in public office and was today jailed for four years.

Liverpool
Crown Court was told that McMillan targeted his seven victims when they
were at their lowest point having first gained their trust.

Duncan
Bould, prosecuting, told how his behaviour included bombarding
his victims with hundreds of sex texts, sending them lewd photos and
videos and asking for nude images in return.

He
also recommended that no further action be taken against the ex-partner
of a woman who would not send him pictures after he said he wanted to
'f***' her and he had sex with another victim after asking her to dress
up for him.

The
court heard on another occasion McMillan received a sex act from a
woman while a junior colleague waited outside and later had sex with her
three times.

On
yet another occasion he received a sex act from a victim while
completing a statement retracting her domestic violence complaint.

He
also convinced an alleged attempted rape victim to retract her
complaint against her wishes and then lied and claimed he had sought
protection for her.

The
Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, told him: 'You
used your position as a detective constable, specially trained in the
handling of complaints of domestic violence and of its victims, to abuse
that position in the worst way imaginable - for your sexual
gratification in order to further and in some cases satisfy your
apparent insatiable sexual appetite.

Liverpool Crown Court was told that
McMillan (pictured outside court) targeted his seven victims when they
were at their lowest point having first gained their trust

'All of these women were left with their confidence and trust in the police shattered. That confidence may never be regained.'

The
judge said McMillan's actions in order to fulfil his 'predatory
sexual urges' undid the hard work of professional colleagues in building
bridges with victims.

'Even
within baskets of the choicest fruits there may be found one
rotten apple. You showed yourself in the so-called discharge of your
duties as a police officer, in which you professed to to have taken
pride, to be rotten to the core.'

McMillan,
of Crosby, Merseyside, committed the offences between June 2011 and
June 2014 and they came to light when a 17-year-old girl missing from
home was found to have contacted him.

Mr Bould said police examined his phone and discovered a vast number of sexual texts and images.

McMillan
told the victim of an alleged attempted rape that she looked attractive
in a bikini in a photo on her attacker's phone, before sending pictures
of his penis.

He
later convinced her to retract her attempted rape allegation and she
is now reluctant to contact police which she since regrets.

David Temkin, defending, said McMillan suffers from bipolar disorder and was under the care of a consultant psychiatrist.

He said his client was never threatening or violent towards the complainants but was ashamed and embarrassed by his behaviour.

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